Instructions Per Cycle (IPC)

Tag: ipc

Aliases: IPC

Average instructions completed per cycle. Reciprocal of CPI; higher is better.

Lecture references

• L02 · Performance & Power — p.36
• L03 · Pipelining — p.5 , p.11
• L04 · Hazards — p.6 , p.7 , p.10
• L05 · Scoreboarding — p.10 , p.11 , p.12
• L06 · Tomasulo — p.40
• L10 · Branch Prediction — p.21 , p.22
• L11 · Advanced Branch Prediction — p.41
• L12 · Caches — p.15
• L16 · Multiprocessors — p.2 , p.4 , p.11

Exam references

• Midterm — Spring 2024 — Q2(c) , Q2(e)